Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trifling losses they captured the village of Lopera. Under counterattacks they eventually were forced to retire but Queipo de Llano by talking out of turn had lost a tidy little cache of guns. On the far northern front without unnecessary' talk, three Rightists divisions-the central one 100% Italian-were closing on Santander. This week with a backing of heavy artillery they swept through Reinosa 40 miles to the southwest-the Basques' prime arms manufacturing centre in Santander Province and a prize rich in zinc mines, lignite, lead, oil-sent packing the Leftists as they tried spunkily...
...insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason generally given was bickering between the Spanish regulars and their Italian and German allies. Since friction of that kind had been rumored before, the Leftists' reports were at least plausible...
Premier Mussolini during his Ethiopian campaign, not wishing to arouse public apprehension by returning so many Italian wounded to the homeland, hospitalized them on the Isle of Rhodes. In the Spanish adventure, apparently less afraid of public reaction, he has been quietly slipping his wounded "volunteers" into Naples harbor, consigning them to nearby base hospitals...
Last week, his hospitalizing activities received much unwanted publicity. The Italian hospital ship Helouan caught fire, burned to the water's edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding...
This year an eminent Italian surgeon. Dr. Andrea Majocchi, described his visit to the Clinic:* "The organization and scrupulous division of labor are basic features of every truly American institution. Hotels, hospitals, public offices, warehouses-all work toward the same end: avoiding as much as possible the weakening and separation of resources and means. All function in the same way. The same working methods obtain at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, the Chicago stockyards, and St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester...